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  2. Trouton–Noble experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Trouton–Noble experiment was an attempt to detect motion of the Earth through the luminiferous aether, and was conducted in 1901–1903 by Frederick Thomas Trouton and H. R. Noble. It was based on a suggestion by George FitzGerald that a charged parallel-plate capacitor moving through the aether should orient itself perpendicular to the ...

  3. Mott–Schottky plot - Wikipedia

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    a equation describing the capacitance of a capacitor constructed of two parallel plates both of area separated by a distance . Replacing equation (3) in (1) we obtain ...

  4. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    Charge separation in a parallel-plate capacitor causes an internal electric field. A dielectric (orange) reduces the field and increases the capacitance. A simple demonstration capacitor made of two parallel metal plates, using an air gap as the dielectric. A capacitor consists of two conductors separated by a non-conductive region. [23]

  5. Oil drop experiment - Wikipedia

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    The experiment observed tiny electrically charged droplets of oil located between two parallel metal surfaces, forming the plates of a capacitor. The plates were oriented horizontally, with one plate above the other. A mist of atomized oil drops was introduced through a small hole in the top plate and was ionized by x-rays, making them ...

  6. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    A common form is a parallel-plate capacitor, which consists of two conductive plates insulated from each other, usually sandwiching a dielectric material. In a parallel plate capacitor, capacitance is very nearly proportional to the surface area of the conductor plates and inversely proportional to the separation distance between the plates.

  7. Dielectric - Wikipedia

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    Charge separation in a parallel-plate capacitor causes an internal electric field. A dielectric (orange) reduces the field and increases the capacitance. Commercially manufactured capacitors typically use a solid dielectric material with high permittivity as the intervening medium between the stored positive and negative charges.

  8. RLC circuit - Wikipedia

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    An RLC circuit is an electrical circuit consisting of a resistor (R), an inductor (L), and a capacitor (C), connected in series or in parallel. The name of the circuit is derived from the letters that are used to denote the constituent components of this circuit, where the sequence of the components may vary from RLC.

  9. Introduction to electromagnetism - Wikipedia

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    A parallel plate capacitor. A capacitor is an electronic component that stores electrical potential energy in an electric field between two oppositely charged conducting plates. If one of the conducting plates has a charge density of +Q/A and the other has a charge of -Q/A where A is the area of the plates, then there will be an electric field ...